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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Barbizon school \Bar`bi`zon" school\, or Barbison school
\Bar`bi`son" school\, . (Painting)
A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering
in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau.
Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic
tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic
feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified,
esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules
Dupr['e], and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters
of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as
Millet and Jules Breton.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]